Новости за 14.02.2019

The U.S. Treasury Department is defending the declining numbers of tax refunds being issued so far this year, saying that taxpayers already saw the benefits of the new tax law in their paychecks.

Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan said leaders in Europe must galvanize public support for more military spending, saying that recent increases in investment aren’t enough for the threats NATO now faces.

New Mexico played a prominent role in the birth of the Atomic Age. Research and development of the atomic bomb was done at Los Alamos, and the first successful bomb test was conducted at Trinity Site on White Sands Missile Range. It is fitting that America’s only congressionally-chartered museum that highlights nuclear science and history is located in the Land of Enchantment.

Waheed Etimad, 40, immigrated to the U.S. four years ago with his family on a special immigrant visa to “make a good life for his children."

The bipartisan pact provides enough money to build just 55 miles of barricades in Texas' Rio Grande Valley — well short of the billions Trump demanded to construct 200-plus miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Senate resoundingly approved a border security compromise Thursday that ignores most of President Donald Trump's demands for building a wall with Mexico but would prevent a new government shutdown. The White House said Trump would quickly declare a national emergency to try to shift money to wall-building from elsewhere in the federal budget.

The Senate resoundingly approved a border security compromise Thursday that ignores most of President Donald Trump's demands for building a wall with Mexico but would prevent a new government shutdown. The White House said Trump would quickly declare a national emergency to try to shift money to wall-building from elsewhere in the federal budget.

The medal will allow commanders for the first time to acknowledge airmen for their contributions to the world’s first and only multinational C-17 Globemaster III wing.

It will be 40 years to the day Monday that Yvonne Kaehler opened the door of the Mashpee home she shared with her husband, Bruce, to find the chaplain and base commander waiting on her doorstep. "Of course you know what's going to happen when the chaplain's standing there," Kaehler said.

Corresponding with loved ones back home is a time-honored tradition for U.S. military men and women. With the evolution of technology and culture, the ways military families stay in touch have changed, bringing with them new benefits and challenges. At the heart of it all is love.

The analysis conducted for the Dayton Development Coalition by The Perduco Group found that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Springfield Air National Guard Base and the Dayton VA have a combined economic impact of $16.68 billion in the 14-counties surrounding Dayton.

INF withdrawal and related issues — such as renewing the New START arms control accord with Russia and modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal — are likely to figure into the 2020 presidential contest.

Catalan nationalism is the cause that keeps dividing Spain as the country faces its third election in less than four years. Tensions have been simmering ever since separatist groups attempted to engineer a split from Spain at the end of 2017 in defiance of the constitution.

Sen. Mitch McConnell is a particularly appealing target for Democrats, even though he’s a strong favorite to win. He not only holds the Senate’s most powerful job, but Democrats are still seething over McConnell’s refusal to have the Senate consider Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s 2016 Supreme Court nominee.

Romania's government started an investigation against a former anti-corruption prosecutor, a move that opponents say fits into a pattern of going after critics through administrative means including budget cuts.

At least 33 paramilitary police officers were killed by a massive car bomb in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday in the worst attack on security personnel since the start of the insurgency in the disputed region three decades ago.

France made a peace offering in a dispute with Italian populist leaders, saying it would soon send its ambassador back to Rome after what Paris saw as meddling in internal affairs.

Republicans are determined to paint Democrats as out-of-control, out-of-their minds socialists. And they think Democrats are helping.

Okinawa Prefecture’s campaign for the Feb. 24 referendum on the central government’s relocation plan for a U.S. air base kicked off Thursday, with the results and voter turnout rate likely to be key in indicating how Tokyo will deal with the outcome of the vote from a political standpoint.

Sofija Kaczan was a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor, a Polish-born widow who had endured a Nazi labor camp before moving to England, according to the BBC. On the morning of May 28, she was mugged by a drug addict.

The leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran said on Thursday that Syrian government forces should replace U.S. troops once they withdraw from parts of the country, intensifying efforts to plan for a postwar Syria.

Amazon says it will not build a new headquarters in New York, a stunning reversal after a yearlong search that eventually resulted in locations being selected in New York and Crystal City, Va.

Senior Republican lawmakers said the compromise spending bill that would avert another government shutdown will easily pass the House and Senate and they expect President Donald Trump will sign it into law.

Aaron Francisco Chavez swallowed at least one of the sky blue pills at a Halloween party before falling asleep forever. He became yet another victim killed by a flood of illicit fentanyl smuggled from Mexico into the Southwest — a profitable new business for drug gangs that has pushed the synthetic opioid to the top spot for fatal U.S. overdoses.

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